And on to the deepest deep, where the fierce flames were hottest, Blazing tenfold as conquering furiously the seas that rushed in with me,-- And there I stopped: and a fearful voice shouted in mine ear, "Behold the home of Discontent; behold the rest of Ambition!" OF SUBJECTION. [Illustration: "L"] Law hath dominion over all things, over universal mind and matter; For there are reciprocities of right, which no creature can gainsay. Unto each was there added by its Maker, in the perfect chain of being, Dependencies and sustentations, accidents, and qualities, and powers: And each must fly forward in the curve, unto which it was forced from the beginning; Each must attract and repel, or the monarchy of Order is no more. Laws are essential emanations from the self-poised character of God, And they radiate from that sun to the circling edges of creation. Verily, the mighty Lawgiver hath subjected Himself unto Laws, And God is the primal grand example of free unstrained obedience; His perfection is limited by right, and cannot trespass into wrong, Because He hath established Himself as the fountain of only good, And in thus much is bounded, that the evil hath He left unto another, And that dark other hath usurped the evil which Omnipotence laid down. Unto God there exist impossibilities; for the True One cannot lie, Nor the Wise One wander from the track which He hath determined for Himself: For His will was purposed from eternity, strong in the love of order; And that will altereth not, as the law of the Medes and Persians. God is the origin of order, and the first exemplar of His precept; For there is subordination of His Essence, self-guided unto holiness; And there is subordination of His Persons, in due procession of dignity; For the Son, as a son, is subject; and to Him doth the Spirit minister: But these things be mysteries to man, he cannot reach nor fathom them, And ever must he speak in paradox, when labouring to expound his God; For, behold, God is alone, mighty in unshackled freedom; And with those wondrous Persons abideth eternal equality.